Waingroves Primary School

Welcome

to Y5

Our teachers are:

Mrs Cox and Mrs Mannion 

Teaching Assistants- Mrs Boot and Mrs English 

PE teacher- Miss Naylor

In Year 5 we always work hard-we are a great team and look after each other :)

Please see the documents below to learn more about Year 5. 

Our Class Timetable 

Our Class Curriculum Maps and Our Learning Journey so far.

Click to find out more information about our topics during the half term. You can also see our learning journeys so far, which share what we have already covered during our learning journey through school.

Summer 1 

Spring 2 

Spring 1 

Autumn 2 

Autumn 1 

Summer 1

This half term we are going to be learning all about life cycles. We are going to be having a very eggciting half term!! Look out for lots of photos of our caterpillars, butterflies, tadpoles and chicks :) Coming soon...

World Book Day 2025

Can you guess who we all are? 

Space Centre Trip

We had an amazing time at the Space Centre. Here are some of the pictures from our busy day! 

Forest School :)

Having a great time building dens and making bird feeders. 

Spring 2 

We have started off the half term by learning about the planets and how they orbit the sun. 

Spring 1

This week we have started our Ancient Egyptians topic. We have learnt all about the process of mummification and we have mummified tomatoes using salt and bicarbonate of soda. 

Autumn Term 2 

This half term we are going to be learning all about North America :)

We have enjoyed taking part in a scavenger hunt this afternoon and have been using a map of our school grounds to locate the States of America. 

 Autumn Term 1

This week we have kicked started our new topic Science Investigators with our WOW! activity. We had great fun making and exploring slime using corn flour and water. We loved playing with our slime and learnt all about Non-Newtonian liquids. 

Today we have explored how we separate mixtures. We have learnt about filtration, evaporation, sieving and magnetism.  

Dissolving experiments 

Here we are exploring which materials will dissolve. 

Making bread 

As part of our topic work we learnt how yeast is used to help bread to rise. We had a great time having our own little bake off :) 

Art Day 

As part of our art days we learnt all about how to draw our eyes, we also learnt how to draw in perspective and then we created our own pieces of art using the skills that we had learnt. 

TTRS 

Click the link below to practise your times tables 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

Here our Year 5 Challenge Words keep practising them at home. 

Visiting the library 

We will be going to the library every Tuesday to change our library books.